Here’s what we’re reading today:
- Michael Berger, “Is a taking based on pretext constitutional?,” Daily Journal (a take on the Second Circuit’s recent decision holding that a property owner could not assert a pretext claim where the allegedly pretextual use did not confer a private benefit.
- Christian Britschgi, “Are ‘Squatters’ Rights’ Out of Control?” Reason (the “squatting” issue has roared into the public zeitgeist lately; if you haven’t been following it closely, here’s a good place to start).
- Remember that case, currently pending the North Carolina Supreme Court, about what remedies are available if a court invalidates a taking, but the condemnor just goes ahead and seizes the property anyway? Here are all the briefs in that case, including our amicus in support of the property owner).
- Levine, Nash & Schapiro, “The Unconstitutional Conditions Vacuum in Criminal Procedure,” 133 Yale L.J. 1401
Continue Reading Thursday Round Up: Pretextual Takings, Squatting, Unconstitutional Conditions
